:Peter Matthiessen

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| image = Peter Matthiessen photograph.jpg

| caption = Matthiessen in 2008

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1927|05|22}}

| birth_place = New York City, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2014|04|05|1927|05|22}}

| death_place = Sagaponack, New York, U.S.

| education = Yale University (BA)

| occupation = Writer

| language = English

| period = 1950–2014

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Nature writing
travel writing
history
novels

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The Snow Leopard
Shadow Country

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{{marriage|Patsy Southgate|1950|1956|end=div}}
{{marriage|Deborah Love|1963|1972|end=her death}}
{{marriage|Maria Eckhart
|1980|}}

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| children = 4

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| awards = {{Plainlist|

Heinz Award for Arts and Humanities (2000)
National Book Award for Fiction (2008)

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Peter Matthiessen (May 22, 1927 – April 5, 2014) was an American novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer, zen teacher and onetime CIA agent.{{Cite web |title=Just Who Was CIA? |url=https://www.forbes.com/2008/02/27/brady-media-cia-oped-cx_jb_0228brady.html |access-date=2022-10-17 |website=Forbes |language=en |archive-date=September 23, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923120518/https://www.forbes.com/2008/02/27/brady-media-cia-oped-cx_jb_0228brady.html |url-status=live }} A co-founder of the literary magazine The Paris Review, he is the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction (The Snow Leopard, 1979, category Contemporary Thought) and fiction (Shadow Country, 2008).[https://web.archive.org/web/20140406094454/http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/writer-environmentalist-peter-matthiessen-dies/2014/04/05/b422c992-bd25-11e3-9ee7-02c1e10a03f0_story.html "Washington Post Obituary"] Obituary, Washington Post, April 6, 2014. He was also a prominent environmental activist.

Matthiessen's nonfiction featured nature and travel, notably The Snow Leopard (1978) and American Indian issues and history, such as a detailed and controversial study of the Leonard Peltier case, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse (1983). His fiction was adapted for film: the early story "Travelin' Man" was made into The Young One (1960) by Luis Buñuel{{cite web|url=http://www.all-story.com/issues.cgi?action=show_story&story_id=265|title=Travelin Man|publisher=All-Story|access-date=December 28, 2008|archive-date=June 28, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090628105824/http://www.all-story.com/issues.cgi?action=show_story&story_id=265|url-status=dead}} and the novel At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1965) into the 1991 film of the same name.

In 2008, at age 81, Matthiessen received the National Book Award for Fiction for Shadow Country, a one-volume, 890-page revision of his three novels set in frontier Florida that had been published in the 1990s.[https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-2008 "National Book Awards – 2008"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181121120146/https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-2008/ |date=November 21, 2018 }}. National Book Foundation. Retrieved March 9, 2012. (With interview, acceptance speech by Matthiessen, and essay by Harold Augenbraum from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.){{cite web| url=http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2008_f_matthiessen.html| title=2008 National Book Award Winner, Fiction| publisher=National Book Foundation| access-date=January 16, 2009| archive-date=January 29, 2009| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090129130420/http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2008_f_matthiessen.html| url-status=dead}} According to critic Michael Dirda, "No one writes more lyrically [than Matthiessen] about animals or describes more movingly the spiritual experience of mountaintops, savannas, and the sea."Dirda, Michael "[http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2008/may/15/an-epic-of-the-everglades/ An Epic of the Everglades] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130330155202/http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2008/may/15/an-epic-of-the-everglades/ |date=March 30, 2013 }}", The New York Review of Books, May 15, 2008.

Matthiessen was treated for acute leukemia for more than a year. He died on April 5, 2014, three days before publication of his final book, the novel In Paradise on April 8.Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher, "[https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/06/books/peter-matthiessen-author-and-naturalist-is-dead-at-86.html "Peter Matthiessen, Lyrical Writer and Naturalist, Is Dead at 86"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170204032712/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/06/books/peter-matthiessen-author-and-naturalist-is-dead-at-86.html |date=February 4, 2017 }}", "The New York Times", April 5, 2014.

Early life

Matthiessen was born in New York City to Erard Adolph Matthiessen (1902–2000){{Cite news|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/23/nyregion/erard-matthiessen-97-new-york-architect.html|title = Erard Matthiessen, 97, New York Architect|newspaper = The New York Times|date = March 23, 2000|last1 = Ravo|first1 = Nick|access-date = April 9, 2018|archive-date = April 10, 2018|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180410072609/https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/23/nyregion/erard-matthiessen-97-new-york-architect.html|url-status = live}}{{cite web| url = https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/news-press/obituary.aspx?n=erard-a-matthiessen&pid=18663393| title = Erard Matthiessen Obituary (2000) - Fort Myers, FL - The News-Press| website = Legacy.com| access-date = April 9, 2018| archive-date = April 10, 2018| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180410072748/https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/news-press/obituary.aspx?n=erard-a-matthiessen&pid=18663393| url-status = live}} and Elizabeth (née Carey). Erard, an architect, joined the Navy during World War II and helped design gunnery training devices. Later, he gave up architecture to become a spokesman and fund-raiser for the Audubon Society and the Nature Conservancy. The well-to-do family lived in both New York City and Connecticut where, along with his brother, Matthiessen developed a love of animals that influenced his future work as a wildlife writer and naturalist. He attended St. Bernard's School, the Hotchkiss School, and — after briefly serving in the U.S. Navy (1945–47) – Yale University (B.A., 1950), with his junior year spent at the Sorbonne. At Yale, he majored in English, published short stories (one of which won the prestigious Atlantic Prize), and studied zoology.

=''Paris Review'' and CIA=

Marrying and resolving to undertake a writer's career, he soon moved back to Paris, where he associated with other expatriate American writers such as William Styron, James Baldwin and Irwin Shaw. There, in 1953, he became one of the founders, along with Harold L. Humes, Thomas Guinzburg, Donald Hall, Ben Morreale, and George Plimpton, of the renowned literary magazine The Paris Review. As revealed in a 2006 film, he was working for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) at the time, using the Review as his cover.{{cite news |first=Gina |last=McGee |title=The Burgeoning Rebirth of a Bygone Literary Star |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/13/books/13hume.html |work=New York Times |date=January 13, 2007 |access-date=January 15, 2007 |archive-date=December 10, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081210024100/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/13/books/13hume.html |url-status=live }} In a 2008 interview with Charlie Rose, Matthiessen stated that he "invented The Paris Review as cover" for his CIA activities.{{cite web |first=Peter |last=Matthiessen |title=The Charlie Rose Show |url=http://www.charlierose.com/guests/peter-matthiessen |location=15:30–15:41 of interview |quote=I went there as a CIA agent, to Paris... I invented The Paris Review as cover. |pages=15:30–15:41 of interview |date=May 27, 2008 |access-date=September 14, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080708031459/http://www.charlierose.com/guests/peter-matthiessen |archive-date=July 8, 2008 }} He completed his novel Partisans while employed by the CIA.Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper?: CIA and the Cultural Cold War, 1999, Granta, {{ISBN|1-86207-029-6}}; p. 246. (USA: The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters, 2000, The New Press, {{ISBN|1-56584-596-X}}) He returned to the U.S. in 1954, leaving Plimpton (a childhood friend) in charge of the Review. Matthiessen divorced in 1956 and began traveling extensively.

Writings

In 1959, Matthiessen published the first edition of Wildlife in America, a history of the extinction and endangerment of animal and bird species as a consequence of human settlement, throughout North American history, and of the human effort to protect endangered species.

In 1965, Matthiessen published At Play in the Fields of the Lord, a novel about a group of American missionaries and their encounter with a South American indigenous tribe. The book was adapted into the film of the same name in 1991. In 1968, he signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War."Writers and Editors War Tax Protest", New York Post, January 30, 1968 His work on oceanographic research, Blue Meridian, with photographer Peter A. Lake, documented the making of the film Blue Water, White Death (1971), directed by Peter Gimbel and Jim Lipscomb.

Late in 1973, Matthiessen joined field biologist George Schaller on an expedition in the Himalaya Mountains, which was the basis for The Snow Leopard (1978), his double award-winner. Interested in the Wounded Knee Incident and the 1976 trial and conviction of Leonard Peltier, an American Indian Movement activist, Matthiessen wrote a non-fiction account, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse (1983).

In 2008, Matthiessen revisited his trilogy of Florida novels published during the 1990s: Killing Mr. Watson (1990), Lost Man's River (1997) and Bone by Bone (1999), inspired by the frontier years of South Florida and the death of planter Edgar J. Watson shortly after the Southwest Florida Hurricane of 1910. He revised and edited the three books, which had originated as one 1,500-page manuscript, which eventually yielded the award-winning single-volume Shadow Country.

While Matthiessen is celebrated for his mastery of both fiction and non-fiction, he always considered himself first and foremost a writer of novels, saying, "Like anything that one makes well with one's own hands, writing good nonfiction prose can be profoundly satisfying. Yet after a day of arranging my research, my set of facts, I feel stale and drained, whereas I am energized by fiction. Deep in a novel, one scarcely knows what may surface next, let alone where it comes from. In abandoning oneself to the free creation of something never beheld on earth, one feels almost delirious with a strange joy."{{cite news|url=http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/985/the-art-of-fiction-no-157-peter-matthiessen|title=Peter Matthiessen, The Art of Fiction No. 157|last=Norman|first=Howard|date=January 1, 1999|newspaper=Paris Review|issue=150|issn=0031-2037|access-date=May 4, 2016|archive-date=May 13, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160513145049/http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/985/the-art-of-fiction-no-157-peter-matthiessen|url-status=live}}

''Crazy Horse'' lawsuits

Shortly after the 1983 publication of In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, Matthiessen and his publisher Viking Penguin were sued for libel by David Price, a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent, and William J. Janklow, the former South Dakota governor. The plaintiffs sought over $49 million in damages; Janklow also sued to have all copies of the book withdrawn from bookstores.{{cite news |first=Harold |last=Evans |title=The Long Arm of a Lawsuit Arrests History |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE3D9143BF932A15753C1A96E948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1 |work=New York Times |date=October 21, 1988 |access-date=August 19, 2008 |archive-date=May 26, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240526164053/https://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/21/opinion/the-long-arm-of-a-lawsuit-arrests-history.html |url-status=live }}

After four years of litigation, Federal District Court Judge Diana E. Murphy dismissed Price's lawsuit, upholding Matthiessen's "freedom to develop a thesis, conduct research in an effort to support the thesis, and to publish an entirely one-sided view of people and events."{{cite news |first=Herbert |last=Mitgang |title='Crazy Horse' Author Is Upheld in Libel Case |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE0DA1F39F935A25752C0A96E948260 |work=New York Times |date=January 16, 1988 |access-date=August 19, 2008 |archive-date=May 26, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240526164550/https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/16/books/crazy-horse-author-is-upheld-in-libel-case.html |url-status=live }} In the Janklow case, a South Dakota court also ruled for Matthiessen. Both cases were appealed. In 1990, the Supreme Court refused to hear Price's arguments, effectively ending his appeal. The South Dakota Supreme Court dismissed Janklow's case the same year.{{cite news |first=Edwin |last=McDowell |title=Book Notes: 'Crazy Horse' Suit |url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/99/04/11/specials/matthiessen-booknotes.html |work=New York Times |date=January 10, 1990 |access-date=August 19, 2008 |archive-date=April 10, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090410075631/http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/04/11/specials/matthiessen-booknotes.html |url-status=live }}{{cite news|first=Peter |last=Matthiessen |title=Who Really Killed the FBI Men: New Light on Peltier's Case |url=http://nativenet.uthscsa.edu/archive/nl/9407/0156.html |publisher=The Nation |date=May 13, 1991 |access-date=August 20, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060916095129/http://nativenet.uthscsa.edu/archive/nl/9407/0156.html |archive-date=September 16, 2006 }} With the lawsuits concluded, the paperback edition of the book was finally published in 1992.

Personal life

After graduating from Yale in 1950, Matthiessen became engaged to Patsy Southgate, a Smith graduate whose father had been the chief of protocol in Roosevelt's White House. Matthiessen and Southgate had two children together. They divorced in 1956.

In 1963 he married the writer Deborah Love. They lived in Sagaponack, NY. He adopted her daughter, writer [https://www.ruematthiessen.com/ Rue Matthiessen]. In 1964, Alex Matthiessen, an environmentalist, was born. In his book The Snow Leopard, Matthiessen reported having had a somewhat tempestuous on-again off-again relationship with his wife Deborah, culminating in a deep commitment to each other made shortly before she was diagnosed with cancer. Matthiessen and Deborah practiced Zen Buddhism.[http://www.tibethouse.us/component/contact/?task=view&contact_id=56 Peter Matthiessen] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140104153729/http://www.tibethouse.us/component/contact/?task=view&contact_id=56 |date=January 4, 2014 }} at Tibet House She died in New York City in January 1972.

In September of the following year came the field trip to Himalayan Nepal. Matthiessen later became a Buddhist priest of the White Plum Asanga, receiving dharma transmission from Bernard Glassman in 1984.terebess.hu, [https://terebess.hu/zen/mesterek/Peter-Matthiessen.html Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014)] He gave dharma transmission to three students: Sensei Madeline Ko-I Bastis, Sensei Michel Engu Dobbs, and Sensei Dorothy Dai-En Friedman.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVLPages/ZenPages/HaradaYasutani.html|title=Zen Buddhism: Sanbo Kyodan: Harada-Yasutani School and its Teachers|access-date=October 27, 2017|archive-date=October 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181013145047/http://www.ciolek.com/wwwvlpages/zenpages/haradayasutani.html|url-status=live}} Before practicing Zen, Matthiessen was an early pioneer of LSD. He said his Buddhism evolved fairly naturally from his drug experiences.{{cite news |first=Nicholas |last=Wroe |title=Call of the Wild |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/aug/17/featuresreviews.guardianreview14 |work=The Guardian |location=London |date=August 17, 2002 |access-date=May 22, 2010 |archive-date=May 26, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240526164550/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/aug/17/featuresreviews.guardianreview14 |url-status=live }} He argued that it was unfortunate that LSD had become outlawed over time, given its potentially beneficial effects as a spiritual and therapeutic tool (when administered with the right care and attention) and was critical of a figure such as Timothy Leary in terms of the long-term reputation of the drug.{{cite book|last1=Perrin|first1=Jim|title=West: A Journey Through the Landscapes of Loss|date=2011|publisher=Atlantic Books|isbn=978-0857895608|page=81|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G6GeqM5K694C&q=%22Peter+Matthiessen%22+LSD&pg=PA81|access-date=June 22, 2014|archive-date=May 26, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240526164552/https://books.google.com/books?id=G6GeqM5K694C&q=%22Peter+Matthiessen%22+LSD&pg=PA81|url-status=live}}

In 1980, Matthiessen married Maria Eckhart, born in Tanzania, in a Zen ceremony on Long Island, New York. They lived in Sagaponack, New York. Eckhart is the mother of Serial host and Executive Producer Sarah Koenig, who was 10 or 11 years old at the time of the marriage. In 1989, Matthiessen published an autobiographical essay wherein he traced his ancestry to North Frisian shipmaster and whaling captain Matthias Petersen (1632–1706).{{cite magazine |magazine=Merian |first=Peter |last=Matthiessen |title=Die Suche nach dem Glücklichen Matthias – Ein Amerikaner auf den Spuren seiner Vorfahren |language=German |issue=5 |volume=42 |pages=114–127 |year=1989 }}

=Illness and death=

Matthiessen was diagnosed with leukemia in late 2012. He died at his home in Sagaponack on April 5, 2014, aged 86.[https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/06/books/peter-matthiessen-author-and-naturalist-is-dead-at-86.html?hp "New York Times Obituary"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150103023937/http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/06/books/peter-matthiessen-author-and-naturalist-is-dead-at-86.html?hp |date=January 3, 2015 }} Obituary, April 6, 2014.

Awards

1979 National Book Award, Contemporary Thought, for The Snow Leopard[https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1979 "National Book Awards – 1979"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190620135926/https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1979 |date=June 20, 2019 }}. National Book Foundation. Retrieved February 21, 2012. There was a "Contemporary" or "Current" award category from 1972 to 1980.[https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1980 "National Book Awards – 1980"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200426083421/https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1980/ |date=April 26, 2020 }}. National Book Foundation. Retrieved February 21, 2012.
1980 National Book Award, General Non-Fiction (paperback), for The Snow Leopard

Dual awards for hardcover and paperback books were conferred from 1980 to 1983, when both Fiction and Nonfiction were also subdivided in other ways. Most of the roughly 30 award-winning paperbacks were reprints; The Snow Leopard alone won awards in both its first hardcover and its first paperback editions.

1991 Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement{{cite web|title=Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement|website=www.achievement.org|publisher=American Academy of Achievement|url=https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/|access-date=December 2, 2020|archive-date=December 15, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161215023909/https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/|url-status=live}}
1993 Helmerich Award, the Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award is presented annually by the Tulsa Library Trust.
1995–97, designated the State Author of New York
2000 6th annual Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities{{Cite web |url=http://www.heinzawards.net/recipients/peter-matthiessen |title=The Heinz Awards, Peter Matthiessen profile |access-date=September 29, 2009 |archive-date=December 16, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091216133318/http://www.heinzawards.net/recipients/peter-matthiessen |url-status=live }}
2008 National Book Award, Fiction, for Shadow Country
2010 Spiros Vergos Prize for Freedom of Expression[http://www.pwf.cz/en/pwf-2010/spiros-vergos-prize/ Spiros Vergos Prize 2010] {{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
2010 William Dean Howells Medal, for Shadow Country{{cite web |url=http://www.artsandletters.org/awards2_popup.php?abbrev=Howells |title=American Academy of Arts and Letters - Award Winners |publisher=Artsandletters.org |access-date=April 7, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150314031720/http://www.artsandletters.org/awards2_popup.php?abbrev=Howells |archive-date=March 14, 2015 }}

Works

= Fiction =

Race Rock (1954) {{ISBN| 0394745388 }}
Partisans (1955) {{ISBN| 0394753429 }}
Raditzer (1961)
At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1965)
Far Tortuga (1975) {{ISBN| 0394756673 }}
Midnight Turning Gray: Short Stories (1984)
On the River Styx and Other Stories (1989) {{ISBN| 0394553993 }}
The Watson trilogy
Killing Mister Watson (1990) {{ISBN| 0394554000 }}
Lost Man's River (1997) {{ISBN| 067973564X }}
Bone by Bone (1999) {{ISBN| 0375501029 }}
Shadow Country: a new rendering of the Watson legend (2008) {{ISBN| 081298062X }}
In Paradise (2014) {{ISBN| 1594633525 }}

=Nonfiction=

Wildlife in America (1959) {{ISBN| 014004793X }}
The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness (1961) {{ISBN| 0140255079 }}
Under the Mountain Wall: A Chronicle of Two Seasons in the Stone Age (1962) {{ISBN| 9780140252705 }}
"The Atlantic Coast", a chapter in The American Heritage Book of Natural Wonders (1963)
The Shorebirds of North America (1967) {{ISBN| 1881527379 }}
Oomingmak (1967)
Sal Si Puedes: Cesar Chavez and the New American Revolution (1969) {{ISBN| 0520282507 }}
Blue Meridian: The Search for the Great White Shark (1971). {{ISBN| 9780140265132 }}
The Tree Where Man Was Born (1972) {{ISBN| 0525222650 }}
The Snow Leopard (1978) {{ISBN| 0143105515 }}
Sand Rivers, with photographer Hugo van Lawick. Aurum Press, London 1981, {{ISBN|0-906053-22-6}}.
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse (1983) {{ISBN|0-14-014456-0}}.
Indian Country (1984). {{ISBN| 0670397873 }}
Nine-headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969–1982 (1986). {{ISBN| 1570623678 }}
Men's Lives: The Surfmen and Baymen of the South Fork (1986). {{ISBN| 039475560X }}
African Silences (1991). {{ISBN| 9780679731023 }}
Baikal: Sacred Sea of Siberia (1992). {{ISBN| 0871563584 }}
East of Lo Monthang: In the Land of Mustang (1995). {{ISBN| 1570621314 }}
The Peter Matthiessen Reader: Nonfiction, 1959–1961 (2000).
Tigers in the Snow (2000). {{ISBN| 0865475768 }}
The Birds of Heaven: Travels With Cranes (2001). {{ISBN| 0865476578 }}
End of the Earth: Voyage to Antarctica (2003). {{ISBN| 0792250591 }}

=Short stories=

Title	Publication	Collected in
class="wikitable" \|+
"Sadie"	The Atlantic (January 1951)	rowspan=2\| Midnight Turning Gray On the River Styx
"The Fifth Day"	The Atlantic (September 1951)
"The Tower of the Four Winds"	The Cornhill Magazine (Summer 1952)	-
"Martin's Beach"	Botteghe Oscure (1952)	-
"A Replacement"	The Paris Review 1 (Spring 1953)	Midnight Turning Gray
"Late in the Season"	New World Writing 3 (May 1953)	Midnight Turning Gray On the River Styx
"Lina"	The Cornhill Magazine (Autumn 1956)	-
"Travelin Man"	Harper's (February 1957)	rowspan=3\| Midnight Turning Gray On the River Styx
"The Wolves of Aguila"	Harper's Bazaar (August 1958)
"Midnight Turning Gray"	The Saturday Evening Post (September 28, 1963)
"Horse Latitudes" aka "Horace and Hassid"	Venture: The Traveler's World (October 1964)	rowspan=4\| On the River Styx
"On the River Styx"	Esquire (August 1985)
"Lumumba Lives"	Wigwag (Summer 1988)
"The Centerpiece"	On the River Styx and Other Stories (1989)
"Speck in the Glades"	Esquire (July 1993)	from Shadow Country

Notes

References

External links

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cZFCdU6LWU/ Peter Matthiessen interviewed on Conversations from Penn State]
[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xknxzx_time-passes-part-1_creation The film Time Passes, a portrait on Peter Matthiessen by Pat van Boeckel (ReRun Productions), was broadcast in the Netherlands by the Buddhist Broadcasting Foundation in 2011. (Part 2 and 3 can be viewed at the same website.)]
{{cite journal| url=http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/985/the-art-of-fiction-no-157-peter-matthiessen| title=Peter Matthiessen, The Art of Fiction No. 157| journal=The Paris Review| author= Howard Norman| date=Spring 1999 | volume=Spring 1999| issue=150}}
{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/12/books/12matthiessen.html?ref=arts | title=Are 3 Novels, Revised as One, a New Book?| author= Charles McGrath| work= The New York Times| date= November 11, 2008 }}
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